Eclipse Setup
nickmcdowall edited this page Mar 18, 2012
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- Download and Install the latest version of Erlang onto your machine:
- Create an environment variable called
ERLANG_HOME
and point it to your installation directory. - Add
%ERLANG_HOME%\bin
to yourPATH
variable.
- Download and install the Erlide plugin for Eclipse - this can be found by searching in the Marketplace, or you could go to the Help menu, choose Install New Software... and add the following update site:
http://erlide.org/update
- Go to
Windows/Preferences/Erlang/Installed runtimes
and add your Erlang installation directory. - Create a new Run configuration for Erlide:
Run/Run configurations...
with these properties - On the Erlang tab
- Make sure that your Erlang project(s) are checked. Only files in these projects will be picked up by the plugin.
- On the Runtime tab
- Choose the installed runtime e.g. erl5.9 from the drop-down list
- Specify the module name as 'erlide' and choose the long-name radio option
- Create an Erlang module file and export a function that will be called.
- Make sure that your Erlang Runtime is running as described above then simply navigate to the Console view that is running the Erlide runtime and start invoking your exported functions.
- Remember to include the module name when invoking the function e.g.
moduleName:functionName(Argument).
- Tip: hitting F9 will recompile your file to pick up any changes you make.